PortableApps.com Platform

Good day,

Hi, I removed the PortableApps.com desktop icon, but it returns at a new session. How can I keep that icon away from my desktop ?

A good proportion of the time that I start or load the platform, the explorer.exe Windows shell process stops working. As in, desktop icons disappear, and the desktop stops responding to mouse clicks. I can kill the process and start a new one and all is fine again. I haven't been able to pin down exact circumstances why this happens sometimes but not others. What steps should I take to help find what is causing the issue?

I did a search, but found nothing.

BTW, the "Known Issues" link on the platform support page is dead.

Hello.

It would be great search for installed apps not only by it's name, but in descriptions.
Right now I refuse to believe that out 350+ apps there is none for "backup".

Thank you.

P.S.
using v12.0 beta 2

Problem:
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1. Installed 11.2 fresh on a new drive
2. After install is complete, it prompts for update to 12.0 beta 2
http://pa.myguardian.net/12b2_update.png
3. Update completes to 12b2 and then autoupdate fails silently (with appropriate switch it throws error)
http://pa.myguardian.net/12b2_update_error.png
4. Manually checking for update results in the same error

Environment:
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1. No firewall (software or hardware - software firewall was configured with full access for this application but was disabled for the testing)

Since a while, despite the option "Check for updates - On platform startup" is activated, Portable Apps never checks for updates although there are updates available.

Doing the check manually, the available updates are shown and can be installed without problems

So I have installed PortableApps at work in my Dropbox folder. Everything works great from that end. When I get home, I use Linux & Dropbox. Some Portable Apps are telling me that the path is different and that it is not recommended for me to "move" things like this.

Will I break anything if I answer "yes" to continue with the new path?

Can I map a "fake" Z: drive in linux to avoid these "broken" paths?

Any help is appreciated.

The list ( https://portableapps.com/node/28593 ) is impressive.

"BAT file on start and exit for advanced users with platform env vars available"

Could I suggest to not restrict to BAT only?

It would be great to specify the full command (relative path to command and relative paths as arguments)

Not only

cmd /k something.bat

Something like:

"..\TccLe\App\tcc.exe" /D /@"..\TccLe\data\tcc.ini" /C "..\TccLe\data\PortableStart.btm"

Hi, since a few weeks the automatic updater doesn't work any more:
After I click to update the apps that are listed it says "Connecting..." but nothing more happens.

So now I can only update from the website.
I already re-installed the PA platform but no success.
On my other computer I have no problems.

Furthermore I cannot open the list of other available apps. The error message says that this may be due to the updater running. In fact is the same program, which hangs too, so I have to kill it with the task manager.

I have been having a problem with the PortableApps Start.exe located in the root of my drive. When I double click to start the launcher, it gives me "The PortableAppsPlatform.exe file is not a valid PortableApps..com release and cannot be launched." However, if I run the program as an Administrator, it will launch with no problems. I have done a virus scan of Start.exe on Virustotal and it shows a 0/46 detection ratio.

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium x64.